The entire history of mankind is  fraught with atrocities diabolically shocking that it would make future generations wonder how man has ever been able to do  such acts. And yet the atrocities are repeated, generation after generation. Perhaps the case that   attracted the most public attention in recent times was the cruel fate that the bold and upright working girl Soumya had to endure at the hands of a beggar-criminal Govindachami.

What is the real reason  that this case  has generated so much anger amongst the general public? The safety of travelling women? The lapse in railway security? Sick, sadistic and  psychopathic Govindachami?

Other than the twisted fate of a defenseless young lady, the Soumya Murder Case too points  to the same aspect that makes  every  act of violence by mankind  remain fresh in the minds of people for a long time – the showcasing of the ugly interior of the superior human race. Soumya must be the most unfortunate girl who  dared to beat all odds against the difficulties and challenges she faced right from childhood; unfortunately she made a mistake of cherishing dreams and hopes in this merciless world.

Here she is, young and beautiful at 23, on a journey to meet her future husband with dreams sparkling in her mind. And there she lay - raped, beaten and bludgeoned to death on a railway track in the middle of the night, by the beggar and petty criminal  Govindachami, a name which has now become synonymous with barbaric brutality and a diablolic threat to society.

Goivindachamy has been given the death penalty by fast court judge K Raveendra Babu; the supreme sign of justice always prevails over crime.  Yet, people ask – with reasons just as valid as those against it - whether justyifying a human killing by killing another is the proper way of justice.

Arguments could be made about the happenings of even worse crimes that go unnoticed, or  where offenders keep growing fat on the ‘special’ food brought to them by ‘special’ officers at ‘special’ cells in ‘special’ jails.

And yet it remains a fact that  Govindachami deserves nothing short of a death penalty.  Govindachami is what a man can become if he  strays away from civilization and takes on the form of his savage ancestor. Civilization was formed by humans precisely to keep off the savage interior from getting exposed.  Govindachami's defense advocate, whose renumeration  is  rumoured to be in several lakhs of rupees, has already announced that they would make an appeal at the High Court. Inspite of the  skeptics,   who form a major chunk of the population, the judiciary system does function in the right way at the right times.